ItiLiDA.BLB NOVELS.—The Wine - Drinker and other Stories. By W. J. Batchelder.
(Smith, Elder and Co. 6s.)—A collection of stories about sea-going people and matters of the shore, vigorously written.—Le Gentleman. By Ethel Sidgwick. (Sidgwick and Jackson. 6s.)—A very attractive tale of life in Paris. We admire Miss Sidgwick's courage in doing the right thing. How easy to have killed the silly Meysie and done poetical justice to the admirable Gilberto !—A Little More than Kin. By Patricia Wentworth. (Andrew Melrose. 6s.) — A spirited story, the scene being laid sometimes on French ground in Revolution days, sometimes in England.— Fenella. By Henry Longan Stuart. (Chatto and Windus. 6s.) The story of a woman's trying life—Fenella is a dancer—told with no little skill, by a person who views it, so to speak, from outside.—Mrs. Elmsley. By Hector Munro. (Constable and Co. 6s.) The people talk at a very great length, but they talk well, and we like the dialogue better than the story.—The Sea-Lion. By Patrick Rushden. (Mills and Boon. 6s.)—A. clever story of an impostor who trades on another man's merits.—The Old Dance-Master. By William Remain Paterson. (Chapman and Hall. Gs.)—A capital story. The "Dance-Master" is good and the philanthropic Baronet almost better.
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